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The Role of Schooling in Skill Development: Evidence from Young Lives in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam

The expansion of schooling in developing countries has improved educational access significantly in recent years, but raises questions about what is learned in school and how this relates to the development of productive skills of value in formal and informal labour markets. Young Lives has collected data since 2002 on two cohorts of children born in 1994-95 and 2000-01 across 80 sites in four developing countries.

The Role of Schooling in Skill Development: Evidence from Young Lives in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam

The expansion of schooling in developing countries has improved educational access significantly in recent years, but raises questions about what is learned in school and how this relates to the development of productive skills of value in formal and informal labour markets. Young Lives has collected data since 2002 on two cohorts of children born in 1994-95 and 2000-01 across 80 sites in four developing countries.

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Children's Experiences and Perceptions of Poverty in Ethiopia

This paper presents children?s experiences and perceptions of poverty. It draws on survey and qualitative data from the Young Lives study of poor children in Ethiopia. Through group exercises, discussions and interviews, children and young people aged 13-17 collectively and individually provided their perceptions of the causes, indicators and consequences of poverty in their communities. They felt that they were more victims of the consequences of poverty while they rarely contributed to its causes.

Children's Experiences and Perceptions of Poverty in Ethiopia

This paper presents children?s experiences and perceptions of poverty. It draws on survey and qualitative data from the Young Lives study of poor children in Ethiopia. Through group exercises, discussions and interviews, children and young people aged 13-17 collectively and individually provided their perceptions of the causes, indicators and consequences of poverty in their communities. They felt that they were more victims of the consequences of poverty while they rarely contributed to its causes.

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Chronic Poverty Amid Growth: Insights from Long-Term Poverty Trajectories

There has been growing interest in researching the dynamics of poverty, including poverty mobility. Looking at change over time and what caused this change can provide useful information for policymakers and those who seek to influence them. Young Lives is a longitudinal study of child poverty and provides ample scope to dwell on this area, making use of the three rounds of survey data and of qualitative data from sub-sample children.

Chronic Poverty Amid Growth: Insights from Long-Term Poverty Trajectories

There has been growing interest in researching the dynamics of poverty, including poverty mobility. Looking at change over time and what caused this change can provide useful information for policymakers and those who seek to influence them. Young Lives is a longitudinal study of child poverty and provides ample scope to dwell on this area, making use of the three rounds of survey data and of qualitative data from sub-sample children.

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Integrating Children's Human Rights and Child Poverty Debates

There are few attempts to link human rights discourses and child poverty debates, though the field is expanding. Within sociology, both the study of rights and of childhood are marginal. This paper utilises a sociological approach to bridge rights and poverty debates in relation to children and explore why there are barriers to implementing children's rights in specific instances.

Integrating Children's Human Rights and Child Poverty Debates

There are few attempts to link human rights discourses and child poverty debates, though the field is expanding. Within sociology, both the study of rights and of childhood are marginal. This paper utilises a sociological approach to bridge rights and poverty debates in relation to children and explore why there are barriers to implementing children's rights in specific instances.

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What Influences the Decision to Undergo Institutional Delivery by Skilled Birth Attendants?

Introduction:   Despite continuing efforts to promote skilled institutional delivery, eight women die every hour in India due to causes related to pregnancy and child birth. The objectives of this study were to assess the prevalence and the determinants of institutional delivery by skilled birth attendants in a rural population in Andhra Pradesh, India.

What Influences the Decision to Undergo Institutional Delivery by Skilled Birth Attendants?

Introduction:   Despite continuing efforts to promote skilled institutional delivery, eight women die every hour in India due to causes related to pregnancy and child birth. The objectives of this study were to assess the prevalence and the determinants of institutional delivery by skilled birth attendants in a rural population in Andhra Pradesh, India.

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Ways Forward for Early Learning in Ethiopia

The importance of early childhood care and education (ECCE) is now widely accepted in international research and development policy. There is considerable evidence that targeted early childhood interventions have the potential to mitigate some of the risks to children's learning and development posed by poverty. But in many countries resources are scarce and are mainly concentrated on achieving the Education For All goal of universal primary education.

Ways Forward for Early Learning in Ethiopia

The importance of early childhood care and education (ECCE) is now widely accepted in international research and development policy. There is considerable evidence that targeted early childhood interventions have the potential to mitigate some of the risks to children's learning and development posed by poverty. But in many countries resources are scarce and are mainly concentrated on achieving the Education For All goal of universal primary education.

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Why Strengthening the Linkages between Research and Practice is Important: Learning from Young Lives

Over the last decade, there has been increasing debate around how to most effectively use research evidence to inform policy processes. A two-year study led by Young Lives set out to identify challenges and opportunities for translating research into policy and practice in the area of child poverty and child protection. On the basis of two case studies – one focusing on orphanhood and vulnerability in Ethiopia and the other on children’s work in Andhra Pradesh, India – the team developed a consultative approach involving a mixed group of stakeholders in each country.

Why Strengthening the Linkages between Research and Practice is Important: Learning from Young Lives

Over the last decade, there has been increasing debate around how to most effectively use research evidence to inform policy processes. A two-year study led by Young Lives set out to identify challenges and opportunities for translating research into policy and practice in the area of child poverty and child protection. On the basis of two case studies – one focusing on orphanhood and vulnerability in Ethiopia and the other on children’s work in Andhra Pradesh, India – the team developed a consultative approach involving a mixed group of stakeholders in each country.

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Modernity, Mobility and the Reshaping of Childhood: Young Lives at BAICE
Modernity, Mobility and the Reshaping of Childhood: Young Lives at BAICE

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What Determines Learning Among Kinh and Ethnic Minority Students in Vietnam

Ethnic minority children in Vietnam score much lower on mathematics and reading tests than do ethnic Vietnamese (Kinh) children. This paper examines the acquisition of mathematics and reading skills in Vietnam, using the Young Lives household survey data that were collected in 2002 and 2006. While further research is needed, the analysis in this paper leads to three important conclusions.

First, these disparities are already very large by age 5, i.e. even before children start primary school.

What Determines Learning Among Kinh and Ethnic Minority Students in Vietnam

Ethnic minority children in Vietnam score much lower on mathematics and reading tests than do ethnic Vietnamese (Kinh) children. This paper examines the acquisition of mathematics and reading skills in Vietnam, using the Young Lives household survey data that were collected in 2002 and 2006. While further research is needed, the analysis in this paper leads to three important conclusions.

First, these disparities are already very large by age 5, i.e. even before children start primary school.

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Transfers and Conditions: Unexpected effects of the Juntos programme in Peru

This is the third policy brief from Young Lives about Juntos, the conditional cash transfer programme in Peru which aims, in the short term, to reduce poverty by making a payment of 100 nuevos soles per month to each participating household if they comply with certain conditions intended to improve children's health and education. The brief describes the conditionalities employed by Juntos and finds there are also some unintended impacts for beneficiary families.

Transfers and Conditions: Unexpected effects of the Juntos programme in Peru

This is the third policy brief from Young Lives about Juntos, the conditional cash transfer programme in Peru which aims, in the short term, to reduce poverty by making a payment of 100 nuevos soles per month to each participating household if they comply with certain conditions intended to improve children's health and education. The brief describes the conditionalities employed by Juntos and finds there are also some unintended impacts for beneficiary families.

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